BenefitsPRO Magazine-June 2015

Discount Plans Source List

Charlene Harris

HR: Suicide is new disturbing trend

Alan Goforth

Should employers expand their wellness programs to include suicide prevention and offer other mental health benefits?

No seller's remorse for 2014 Broker of the Year

Alan Goforth

Business has been full speed ahead for Benefits Selling's 2014 Broker of the Year Ed Oravetz.

Wunderkind

Nathan Solheim

When David Contorno was in the 7th grade, his school system on Long Island combined his middle school with another local high school.

A graduation gift that keeps on giving

Christopher Carosa

Graduation season leaves many wondering what to get the newly minted grad.

Record year for insurance jobs

Kathryn Mayer

Looking for a job?

Aetna shake-up

Dan Cook

An industry shake-up is apparently in the works as insurance giant Aetna is targeting a major health insurer as an acquisition prospect.

License to chill

Brian Hicks

Im sitting under a beach umbrella, staring miserably out at the Gulf of Mexico, with sand in places there shouldn't be sand.

Assurant quitting benefits biz

Allison Bell

Assurant Inc. says it is looking for buyers for its health insurance and employee benefits units.

What, me worry?

Denis Storey

Since even before PPACA became law five years ago, brokers have been sweating bullets.

Technology and privacy

Marty Traynor

A couple months ago, National Underwriter Life & Health Magazine published an issue focused on technology.

The case for preventive care

Kathryn Mayer

Six years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force doled out a controversial recommendation: Change long-standing breast cancer screening recommendations and advise women to wait until age 50 rather than 40 to start getting mammograms.

Workers say they’re chubby and getting chubbier

Dan Cook

The number of U.S. workers who self-describe as overweight is increasing, and more employees blame at least part of their girth expansion on their jobs.

Vision leads way in voluntary

Kathryn Mayer

Vision insurance sales increased a whopping 24 percent last year over 2013, leading the way in worksite voluntary sales growth, according to industry data.

Another good year for voluntary sales

Bonnie Brazzell and Gil Lowerre

Every year at this time, we write a series of articles on the voluntary market sales results for the prior year.

HR: Rogues Gallery

Alan Goforth

Employees spend eight hours a day with their coworkers during the workweek.